2008 Woodie Awards
Vote Absentee
Chin up, UMass students. There's an important chancellor search going on right underneath your noses. On Friday, April 11, four finalists were chosen from a pool of over 100 applicants to fill the spot of Interim Chancellor Thomas Cole, who has been in his position since John V.
Bob Barker might be a robot, but he is definitely nuts. He has to be. Imagine the abuse: 30 years of orally-fixated assault from overweight housewives whose only meaning in life comes from spinning the giant wheel. Did he love it? I couldn't imagine so. He had to do it for a reason, a cause.
Being a former Jew, this weekend I went home to help my parents (still Jewish) to celebrate Passover. I mostly went home for the company and the Manishewitz wine. For those of you out there who aren't Jewish or formerly Jewish, Manishewitz wine is what happens when Jews run a vineyard.
To paint the Republican nominee as unsatisfactory may be an understatement, but that's not my biggest concern. The last two presidential terms, being so full of folly as they were, along with waves of clueless primary voters that somehow regarded John McCain as the most impressive candidate, have handed Democrats the 2008 election.
Dear Editor: Re: "Resisting Conformity in the Political Arena," Joshua Wilder, Ed/Op, April 22, 2008. There I was, peacefully reading about Obama's ordeal with his flag lapel pin. I was almost finished with Joshua Wilder's passionate exploration of "true patriotism," and I had only grumbled a couple of times.